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^ ••Dod b’ess a ll th e fa m ily d e a r ; D od b ’ess m a m m a , p a p a, to o ; D od b ’ess ’lttle s is te r F a n — A n ’ b rin g m e a sled , nic e an* n e a X Tuesday, December 19. ■4 The senate today accented the Pana ma canal emergency appropriation bill as originally passed by the bouse. Heyburn made a new move in bis fight on forest reserves by introducing a resolution calling on the secretary of ► agriculture for a statement of receipts and expenditures made by the forest service, also the amount of school land included in forest reservations. Fulton inroducd a bill to relieve bona fide settlers on Northern Pacific lands where such settlements were made sub- k sequent to January 1, 1898. A large grist of appointments were confirmed. Senator Dolliver introdeuced his rate bill today. It authorizes the commis sion to fix and enforce a maximum and reasonable rate, to go into effect 30 days after notice. The commission also provides for seven members. bills appropriating )25,000 for a fish hatchery in Yakima county, and grant ing Washington 60,000 acres of land for the benefit of the Soldiers’ home. Thursday, December 14. The senate spent four hours today In discussing the Panama canal emergency appropriation bill and, when it ad journed, the bill was still under con sideration. A separate bill regulating the issuance of bonds for the canal and placing them on the same basis as other bonds of the government was passed without debate. Senator Fulton introduced a bill ap propriating $100,000 to erect a public building at Baker City, another carry ing $16,000 for improvement of the grounds at Salem, and a third to ratify the treaty with the Klamath Indiana and pay them $500,000. The pure food bill was reported by *1 The house continued debating the Senator Heyburn. insurance question today. The day The Republican members of the was passed without legislation and end ed with an amusing debate on the ques house caucus today unanimously de tion of the appointment of a janitor at clared in favor of admitting Oklahoma ^ 6 0 per month to the reception room and Indian Territory as one state, and on the minority side of the chamber. by a vote of 10 to 66 declared in favor In the end the janitor was not appoint of admitting Arizona and New Mexico as one state. Both statehood questions ed. The house committee on ways and are to be contained in one bill. Representative Cushman introduced means favorably reported Payne’s bill admitting all Philippine products into a bill providing for the election of one the United States free, excepting sugar delegate from Alaska to congress. Representative Lacey, of Iowa, intro and tobacco, which are to pay 25 per cent of the Dingley rate until 1909, duced a bill granting grazing privileges when they are also to go on the free on public lands to homestead settlers and holders of small farms in semi- list. arid and arid lands. Prices are to range from 1 to 6 cents an acre annu Monday, December 18. The canal emergency appropriation ally. A fourth Federal judge for Alaska is bill was received in the house from the senate. Discussion of thiB was followed provided for in a bill by Jones, of by another debate on insurance mat Washington. ters. The house disagreed to the Wednesday, December 13. amendments to the canal bill and sent The senate was in session for only it to conference. one hour and a half today, and a por Hale and Teller were named as the tion of that time was spent in the con '■senate conferees on the canal bill. sideration of executive business. A The senate in tha afternoon took up number of private bills were introduced the house ship subsidy bill, which in the open session, and Allison pre makes it the unfinished business before sented the leport of the committee on that body. appropriations on the canal bill, giving A joint resolution was adopted pro notice that he would call it up for con viding for adjournment from December sideration tomorrow. He said that the 21 to January 4. committee was of the opinion that $11,- Dolliver has a new rate bill which 000,000 would be sufficient for present he will introduce soon as a substitute purposes and that the amount had been afor all measures now pending. left as fixed by the house. «g ------- « Senator Gal linger introduced an amendment to the statehood bill to pro ( Saturday, December 10. * The senate today passed the Panama hibit the sale of liquor in the state emergency appropriation bill. The proposed to be created by the admis only change in the measure as it passed sion of Oklahoma and Indian Territory the house is a provision which requires for a period of 21years, and then only that congress shall be supplied with after an amendment of the state con regular estimates of all salaries except stitution permitting liquor traffic. those paid to laborers. Senator Dubois, of Idaho, will retain Speaker Cannon announced the trans- all his present committee places and se- fir of Mondell (Wyoming) from the , cures membership on the irrigation committee on military affairs to that of ommittee. public lands, and of Miller ( Kansas) from public lands to military affairs. The house indulged itself again to The transfer gives the two members day to the extent of four hours of what the same committee assignments htey was many times termer! academic dis had in the last congress. cussion of Federal control of insurance. Committee reference of the annual The holiday recess was fixed from message of President Roosevelt w sb next Thursday to January 4. made according to the subjects treated. The question of Federal control of in Friday, December 15. surance was assigned to the committee The Panama canal was again under on ways and means. In explanation of consideration by the senate today and this. Payne said that, in hie opinion, Tillman occupied the entire time given the only way the United Slates can to that subject. He did not indicate deal with insurance companies is any intention of opposition to the pass through the taxing power, and over age of the appropriation bill, but he th ’S the ways and means committee has criticized the methods of the canal com jurisdiction. mission in many of its transactions. Among the bills introduced in the When the senate adjourned the bill house today were the following: was still pending, but there was an By Mondell, of Wyoming, providing agreement for a vote tomorrow. for the appropriation of not more than In the roorganization of the senate $20,000 annually from the sales of pub committees, now about completed, Ful lic lands to the endowment of state ton secures the chairmanship of the schools of mines and mining or depart committee on claims, retains his place ments of mines and mining in connec on public lands and on irrigation, and tion with colleges already established. is assigned membership on one or two Bv Needham, of California, transfer smaller committees. Ankeny becomes ring the Yellowstone, Yosemite, Se chairman of ths irrigation committee quoia, General Grant, Mount Rainier, and secures a place on commerce. Crater Lake and Wind Cave national ( Piles is made chairman of coast and parks from the control of the Depart ' insular survey and given a place on ment of the Interior to the Department public lands and territories, in which of Agriculture. ^ itfer place he will be able to work for By Delegate Andrews, of New Mexi Alaska. Heyburn did not get a single co, providing for the admission of the committee asked for. The only new territory of New Mexico as a single place given him was public buildings sta e . The fate of Dubois is not as yet settled, A biU abolishing the Isthmian Canal the Democrats not having completed commission was introduced by Repre sentative Mann, of Illinois. In it dis their siate. cretion is given the president to put the The house today devoted 4$^ hours work of building the canal under any to lively debate on the possibilities of one of the executive departments, and also to operate the Panama railroad controlling insurance. Jones, of Washington, introduced throngh the same means. t t O ppose the Joint Bill. Prescott, Ariz., Dec. 20. — At the close of the annual banquet of the Northern Arizona Bar association, a strong resolution was unanimously adopted declaring its unalterable oppo sition to the joint statehood bill and instructing the secretary to forward a copy, with the signature of each mem ber attached, to Speaker Cannon, Dele- gat Mark Smith and Congressmen Hamilton, Tawney, and Adams, and Senators Foraker, Flint and Perkins. 8trong speeches denouncing the bill were made. C harter for Alaska Cable. Waghington, Dec. 20.—Senator Ful ton today introduced a bill authorizing the North American Telegraph A Cable company, incorporated in the state of Washington, to construct telegraphic cables from the coast of Washington to Alaska, the Aleutian island, Siberia, Manchuria, China, Japan and the Philippines and requiring the operation of the cable within five yean. Among the directors of the company are prom inent Nortbwea-ern men. New Mexico Willing to Unite. Washington, Dec. 14.—Joint state hood for New Mexico and Arizona was discussed by the president today with a delegation of New Mexicans, among whom were Solomon Luna. Republican National committeeman ; Major W. H. H. Llewellyn, United States District attornev; Judge A. A. Freman and A. M. Hove. Judge Freeman said be be lieved the people of the two territories would be glad to accept joint statehood. Major Llewellyn and Mr. Luna took up with the president some appoint ments in the judiciary of New Mexico. C u t Out Opposed Section. Washington, Dec. 14. — The Santo Domingo treaty was referred back to the committee on foreign relations. It is understood that it is the desire of the administration that the treaty be modi fied by striking out the provision au thorizing the president to send an armed force to Santo Domingo, if at any time necessary. It is the belief ef friends of the treaty that, if this pro vision were removed, there would be less opposition to ratification. Chicago, Dec. 18. — The Daily News correspondent sends the following from St. Petersburg: Expectation of the downfall of the government continues to grow in this city, insurgents still hold Riga, Reval and other Baltic towns. The garrisons in these provinces are insufficient to put down the armed rebels and the ar tillerymen refuse to fire on them. Strikes of railroad workers and crews of steamships prevent the forwarding of troops and ammunition to the revolt ed provinces. Though the government has been urged to dispatch a fleet to the Baltic ports Admiral Birileff hesitates to make any move, fearing that his sailors will join the rebellion. Dispatshes received from Manchuria today report the situation of the army as desperate. Many officers are in hid ing from their own troops, fearing for their lives. The men are burning and pillaging everything within their reach, while the civil population has fled. Revolutionary proclamations have been posted about in the barracks and in the streets. Dissensions among the chief officers seriously complicate matters. The soldiers accuse the com missaries of stealing laige quantities of supplies and have burned their houses. W ORK DONE ON IR R IG A T IO N . Great Amount o f Construction b< Reclam ation Service. Done Washington, Dec. 18. — A resume of toe work performed by the Reclama tion service to date shows that 77 miles of main canal, 54 miles of distributing system and 186 miles of ditches have been constructed, including dams, bead- works, etc. Tunnels having a total length of three and one-half miles have been driven, including more than a mile of the great Gunnison tunnel. More than 260 miles of telephone lines have been installed and are in opera tion; 126 miles of wagon road, many miles of which were cut out of solid rock in almost inaccessible canyons, 147 bridges and 50 office and other build ings have been constructed. The works above mentioned have called for the excavation of 9,350,000 cubic yards of rock and earth, the lay ing of 70,000 cubic yards of concrete, 12.000 cubic yards of riprap, 150,000 linear feet of sheet piling and 10,000 feet of bearing piles have been driven. There have been purchased 130,000 pounds of railroad iron, 250,000 pounds of structural steel, 600,000 pounds of cast iron, 1,750,000 feet of lumber, and 78,000 barrels of cement. The government has erected a cement mill at a cost of more than $100,000, which has already turned out 15,000 barrels of cement, and is now furnish ing about 300 barrels a day. The saw mills operated by Uncle Sam have cut 2.880.000 feet of lumber from the gov ernment reserves. H O L D U P T R A IN . Safes o f North C o ast Limited Rifled Near North Yakima. North Yakima, Dec. 18. — Overland limited No. 1, due here at 2:50 o’clock p. m., but running almost five hours late, was held up at Hillside, in the Y’akima canyon, 11 miles north of this place, at 7:16 Saturday evening. The express car was dynamited, two safes blown open and all contents of value taken. From a good source it is learned that there was little currency in the safes on the limited at the time of the holdup. The main contents consisted of drafts, etc City Marshal Curren has ordered the arrest of every stranger seen in North Yakima who comes anywhere near an swering the description given of the holdup men. Up to midnight last night there have been four arersts. One man was arrested by Officer Lane who aswered the description perfectly. He was taken off a passenger coach on train coming from the scene of the holdup, and was wet to the skin. It is thought he may be one of the men. It is thought possible the bandits may have crossed the Columbia and be beaded for British Columbia. C h ristm as Presents by Shipload. Troops and Workmen Fight on Streets ot Riga. "D od b ’esa all th e c b ll’ren poor, An* m a k e a ll th e alck fo lk s w e ll; A n ’ d e a r D od, p ’e a se d o n ’t fo rg e t T o s e n d a pony, big a n ’ sw ell. *‘D od be g ra c io u s to y o u r lam b s. An* keep sin o u t o f m y life ; WARSHIPS TO REGAIN CONTROL Provisional Government H as Been E s tablished in Baltic Province*— Public Buildings Burned. St. Petersburg, tie Eydtkubnen, Dec. 16.—It is Btated upon the bigbeet authority that two cruisers and two torpedo boats have been ordered by the minister of Marine, acting under in structions of Count Witte, after an audience with the czar, to proceed from Libau to Riga and shell the city, if the reovolutionists refuse to surrender. A provisional government has been established there and the public build- inga are occupied by representatives of the home rule party, who have determ ined to make Riga the capital of the Baltic provins». Barricades have been erected every where, and steamers arriving at the port are unable to communicate with the shore. Public buildings have been burned. The population is fleeing and merchants are abandoning their business. The new strike law provides heavy penalties, and drastic punishment for participators and instigators of strikes. They may be sent to prison for from 16 months to four years for an offense. Government Openly Defied. Paris, Dec. 16.—The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Matin, under date of December 15, says the sudden re turn of the government to reactionary measures has aroused the interest of the revolutionaries, who are holding meetings and passing resolutions de claring their determination to resist the government. As the resolutions are passed they are forwarded to the min isters, who do not reply to them. A St. Petersburg dispatch to the Journal, dated December 15. says: “ At a meeting of engineers tonight it was resolved to demand the immedi ate release of Schmidt, the leader of the mutiny at Sevastopol. “ Alarming reports are arriving con cerning the troops at Moscow, who ap pear to be thoroughy disaffected, and who, in addition to demanding in creased pay and shorter terms of serv ice, ask for liberty to read all news papers.’’ D E C R E A S E O F P O S T O F F IC E S . Result o f Rural Delivery— Local P a r cels Post Proposed. Washington, Dec. 16.—The annual report of Fourth Assistant Postmaster General P. V. PeGraw says there has been a decrease of 575 in the new post masters commissioned, as compared with the previous year. The actual number of postofficea in the United States at the cloee of the fiscal year was: First class, 275; second class, 1,258; third class, 4,120; fourth class, 62,- 478; total, 68,181. This, the report says, was a reduc tion, resulting mainly from the discon tinuance of 3,492 fourth class postofficea during the year by reason of the estab- lishvent of rural free delivery. The aggregate compensation of the post masters thus displaced amounted to $198,994. City free delivery had been extended during the year to 44 new poetoffices, as against 69 in 1904. The gioss re ceipts of free delivery offices during the year had increased 8 per cent and the cost only 2 per cent. Mr. DeGraw renews the recommend ation that a rate of 3 cents per pound or any fractional part thereof be fixer! on packages not exceeding five pounds mailed at the distributing postoffice of any rural free delivery route. This rate should apply only to packages de posited in the local postoffice for deliv ery to boxes of patrons on routes eman ating from that office, and not to mail transmitted from one office to anothar. IJ 11 Dod b oss «II m y lttle f r le n 's — A n ’ p ’e ase d o n ’t fo rg e t u Ûfe. “ A n ' D od b ’ess ole S a n ta C lans, H e Is such a sp re n d ld m an! A n’ te ll him to n o t fo rg et To b rin g a gun, too, If he can. “ A n ’ a box of m arbles, too. A n’ a lot of p ic tu re b o o k s— A ü' a to o lc h e st fu ll of tools, W lf ta c k s, n a ils, screw s, a n ' h o o k a ‘A n’ d e a r D od, som e o th e r flngs T o All In c o rn e rs w tf, y ou kno w , G in g e r c ak e s a n ' n n ts a n ’ figs A n' a lot o f c an d y , too. ’’A n ' I w o u ld n ’t m tnd som e s k a te s , (I’ll give m y ole o nes to som e fríe n ') A n ' I reckon d is Is a ll— So d o o d -n ig h t, d e a r D od. a m e n ." — D e tro it F r e e P r e s a Talbot's Christmas BY FRANCIS H A RT. tha „on hit a tori«— . hit watchful c. guests rewarded____ neous enjoyment of ell t fore them. It waa good to a wait upon blind Jonas, who couid help himself, and upon lama Bet. whoa* crippled hands mads difficult tha use of knifa and fork. Talbot rose to replenish a half-emptied plate as the hall bell thrilled merrily, ihere waa a pause; then James' quiet, well-trained voice said: "Yea, madam; he is at dinner in the studio." The door swung inward. Talbot knew that he waa not dreaming when the came toward him with outstretched hands and a ripple of explanation of which he heard not one word. Indeed, to him one isolated fact filled the world —that »he was smiling up at him with a great promise in her eyes. “A little friend of mine wanted to give her friends a Christmas dinner, and I persuaded her to let me share it," he explained jauntily. “It has been a great treat to me.” Miss Wakefield read the whole truth for herrelf as she looked into the good, homely faces that reflected their host’s praises in every glance. She said noth ing, but her eyes told what Talbot would have given all he possessed to hear from her lips. Then Mr. Wakefield and his wife ventured in, and Talbot bethought himself to ask if they had dined, which they had not. Lou and Talbot made room for three plates here and there, and as there waa a plenty of crullers and turkey and Icet cream, all went well to the very end of the function, when the eleven originally invited gzuests rose and made their adieus with glad hearts and beaming faces. Miss Wakefield stood before the grate while her brother and his wife examined a row of pictures half hidden behind the holly wreaths. “I was so sorry to disappoint you yes terday,” she said, “but poor Ted’» tele gram was so urgent that we were afraid he waa worse, and hadn’t the heart to refuse him. When I discovered that we could take an early train home I made up my mind to run in and wish you a Merry Christmas, anyway, and ao we came, you see.” Talbot thought of the ring. He had taken it from its hiding place. "For a long while I have wanted to ask you to accept this—and what goes with It,” he said simply, holding the glittering bauble toward her. A red glow crept Into her face. She made no audible answer, but when the young couple at the other end of the room Bauutered toward them they were smiling. C H R I 8 T M A S T R E E F IR E S . H ow AMES,” said Gerry Talbot sudden ly, looking up from the letter lie had just received, “you needn’t mind about the rest. The dinner will not come off, after all.” The decorated end of the big, sumptu ous studio looked oddly distasteful to Gerry Talbot since the reading of Miss Wakefield’s telegram, which had shat tered nis enthusiastic pinna. He had in vited her—and her brother anil his wife —to a Christmas studio dinner which he meant to make as festive as possible. Of course, her rejection at the last hour had been a gentle Invention prepared to avert a greater disappointment, for he had let her know unmistakably how It was with him, ami he had been so hope ful of success that he had selected a ring for her Christmas gift—a little gold en circlet set with a clear white soli taire. J The streets were thronged with bust ling. Christmas shoppers, glad of heart, with merry, expectant faces, and here and there a wistful one, too, looking on, lilt not buying. Talbot noticed two lit tle girls gazing wistfully into a confec tioner's window. “Yes, Min, I would. I’d do It fust tiling.” said tbe taller of the two. “Oh, my, wouldn't it tie nice to be rich an' invite ull your friends to a big turkey an' ice cream dinner!” They were very poorly clad, thin- featured and ill-nourished, hut not un pleasant to look at. Talbot was con scious, all at once, of an inexplicable impulse to gratify the child’s wish. “So you would really like to gire your friends a Christmas dinner!” said he, smiling down at her astonished eyes. “I have a great mind to let you have your wish.” “Oh, dear me, Min!” gasped Lon. “I can’t hardly believe It, can you? It sounda Just like a make-believe thing. Won’t Mia’ Posey be s’prised! An' Jonaa an' Meg an’ Tom. Oh, won't they be jest too pleased!” “How many shall you invite?” Talbot asked gravely, taking out his notebook. “Well, there’s Aunt Katie an’ Uncle Tim an’ the baby. Mis' Posey, Jonas Boggs. Meg an’ Pat Kooley—Min, can you think of anyone else?” "Lgme Betsy an* Moll,” “How many’s that?" asked Lou. “Twelve, counting us three.” “Don’t you think it would be nice to have a little present beside each plate?" asked Talbot. Both girls gasped, but looked immense ly pleased. “Suppose you two go round with me and pick out what you consider suitable tor each of your guests, because I should not know what to select.” When Lou appeared at the studio on the following morning she was a very different looking girl, and any one would have known by the pure joy of her voire that some great and festive event was at hand. Talbot had finished the decorations which had been so harshly interrupted by Mias Wakefield’s mes sage, and the result was extremely grat ifying. especially after Lou’s rapturous acclamations. At precisely 12 o'clock the bell rang for the first time to announce tbe ar rival of Aunt Katie and Tlin and the baby, all polished and prinked to the verge of painfulnesa. Next came Mia’ Posey, a little, faded, bowed, ancient woman in ruaty black, with long gold loops in her wrinkled ears. Lame Betty thumped in on her crutches, closely fol lowed by Moll, in borrowed finery, of va rious aizea. Meg brought blind Jonaa, and a merry little wraith of a man called Tom Doom. I Tallen shook hands all around with ¡a “Merry Christmas!” after which they New York, Dec. 18.—The American line steamer Philadelphia, which sailed Arm y o f Strike Breakers. from New York today for Plymouth, Chicago, Dec. 16.—The Chicago Em Cherbourg and Southampton, carried 3,226 bags of mail for Europe. This ployers’ association, at a meeting to represents the largest quantity of mail day, formulated plans for tbe establish matter ever carried by any one stermer ment of a standing army of laborers, out of the port of New York. The both skilled and unskilled and repre Philadelphia is the Christmas ship senting every branch of trade to be pre from New York this year and the major pared to go to any city in the United portion of the mail she carries consists States to fill the places of strikers when of presents for relatives and friends i necessary. The scope of the associa who are on the other side of the At tion will be extended so as to include every city in the United States with a lantic. population of 50,000 or more. Employ, merit bureaus will be maintained where Friends Will Give Aid. Havana, Dec. 18.—That the Ameri nonunion workmen can register. cans in the Isle of Pines have friends Prom otion for MecArthur. in the United States who are willing to Washington, Dec. 15.—The author*' aid them in every way possiBle in their efforts to have the island added to the live statement was made at the War de Union is manifest here in letters re partment today that, on the retirement cently received from prominent resi in September next of General Corbin, dents of the Isle of Pines. These let who will succeed General Batee in April ters say that friends in tbe States have next as lieutenant general of the army, offered hundreds of thousands of dollars General MacArthnr, the officer next in to aid in establishing a territory of the line ot succession, will be promoted to tbe grade of lieutenant general. It United States. also was announced that General Wood probably will snrceed General Corbin Finds M illions in Ground. Winnipeg, Man., Dec. 18.— Anthony n the Philippine division. Blam,of Boston, principal owner of the Horizontal Reduction o f Tariff. Lanrentine mine in the Mamton dis Washington, Dec. 16. — Senator Mc- trict. 200 miles east of here, has un earthed well* of gold that assay $400,- Creery yeeterday introduced a bill to 000 to the ton. There ere millions in reduce the tariff of tbe United S*atea sight. It is the richest discovery ever by providing that there shall be levied mad* in gold mining. He spent ten upon ail articlea imported from foreign years off and on in tbe district aad ha* o< nn tr ie * a rate equal to three-fourth* of tbe present schedule. made much money. all took their placet at the beautiful the D a n g e r o f P a r lo r C o n fla g r a t i o n « M a y He M i n i m i z e d . Several accidents on Christmas eve and day each year recall the fact, appar ent only on that day, that the Christ mas tree is quite ns dangerous as it is pretty, and that the proud father per sonating Santa Claus should take the precaution to equip himself with asbes tos whiskers. About the usual number of fires are recorded in the country each year as a result of the inflammable na ture of the Christmas tree and ita dec orations and their careless handling. This wnrnlng always follows Christ- mas just as the outcry against toy pis tols is raised after the Fourth of July. Of course no rose Is free from thorns, und apparently no holiday can be ob served In the conventional fashion with out risk of accident to the merrymakers. Sputtering candles on a Christmas tree are a very real danger, and the same may be said of the trees themselves, the wreaths of evergreen and the mistletoe. After a day or two they become dry and inflainniahle to a high degree, and in the joy of the celebration risks are run and precautions neglected. A tree thus load ed down with presents and decorations may become in an Instant a torch capa ble of stnrting a disastrous tire, as many cities discovered tbe other day, to their great cost and to the serious discomfort of their fire departments. By taking preventive measures thou sands of dollars will be saved every year. Trees should he bought late and kept nut doors until used. In the case of fresh, green trees the risk will be min imized. Candles should not be too close together and should be constantly watch ed. Above all, a wet blanket should be at band, also a sponge on a pole long enough to reach any point of the trees nr ceiling. Bo, at least, say the fire fighters, who every year have their own Christmas spoiled by the neglect of these very obvious precautions. O ld I d e a s A b o u t C h r i s t i n a « Even as late ns 1753 there was soma doubt ss to the exset date of Christmas, the old count bringing It to the 5tb of January, the new count giving us the 25th of December, which is "the day w* celebrate.” In Devonshire, England, it la believed that If the sun shines at noon on Christmas day a plentiful crop may be looked for in the following year. T h e T h o u g h t f u l G ir a ffe . T h e a b su rd and long legged giraffe R aid: “ H e re is a th o u g h t makes me I f w e g ira ffe s sh o u ld O ld laugh. Wear stockings, how could Santa Claus even fill half?“ ORDIRLO orr. 'p i The New Year—You’ll have to aove on, old man.